Lemon Chicken Foil Packets

Tin foil meals in the firebox

We really enjoy cooking these over the grill or campfire in foil packets, and a few weeks ago I even threw them in the firebox of our wood stove for lunch. You can also cook this up nicely in a dutch oven! I am modifying this from […]

Baking calzones in the wood stove

Pardon me if I seem overly excited about this venture, but being able to cook calzones on or in my woodstove was something I was a little apprehensive about trying. But we love calzones. They are a filling, cheap treat we like to enjoy once in a while. And when you’re […]

Week 2 of Wood Stove Cooking

I have now gone two weeks of cooking using my wood stove instead of my electric stove. This weeks meals have included: fajitas, mexican rice, refried beans, calzones, biscuits and gravy, rabbit tenderloin. chicken and dumplings, and much more.

This week I used my ‘low heat spots’ more to keep food warm (set on mason […]

Maple-Glazed Carrots

Carrots are one of those cheap veggies year-round that I seem to always have a lot of and tend to cook a lot more in the winter months when there are no longer any fresh veggies from the garden. This is one of our family favorites. I normally double this recipe and cook it in […]

Biscuits On the Wood Stove

It didn’t take long to come up with my own style of cooking biscuits on my wood stove. I was nervous about trying because much of what I read online said that biscuits weren’t possible (unless it was like a cornbread or something), or that they were but their texture would change. […]

Cooking on a wood stove week 1

I just completed a week of cooking every meal on our wood stove. I intend to go a whole month like this because I am very curious to see how much money this is saving on our electric bill. I am brand new at this, but I wanted to capture my recent experiences and share […]

Beef Stroganoff

**As Seen In: Scratch Cooking, a 400+ page e-cookbook with hundreds of from-scratch recipes!**

My oldest son just loves this recipe. I think he would live off of it, if I let him.

Ingredients:

2lb ground beef, browned 1 1/2 c beef broth 2tb ketchup 2 tsp onion powder 1 tsp salt 1 […]

Beef Tips & Gravy Over Noodles

This is a delicious meal, and when cooked right the meat is so tender! I have cooked this over the wood stove and also in a dutch oven on the regular stove. The key is to keep it simmering, not boiling.

Ingredients:

1lb stew meat (I cut chuck roast into bite sized pieces) 2TB flour […]